Sentence examples for modicum for from inspiring English sources

If you can afford to go abroad, you can probably afford a modicum for the exchange service – and it is a service.

This high price seems a fair trade for a decent life for our children and a modicum of stability for our fundamental public and private institutions.

If you have no respect for me, I nevertheless expect a modicum of respect for my wife".

It is as unflinching as all Gates's other writing, but for once he hints at a modicum of redemption for humanity in all our messy awfulness.

The American men's eight, which has now won the championship eight event for the eighth consecutive year, gained a modicum of revenge for its third-place finish behind Canada and Germany in the world championships.

I decided that the best way to forfeit that control while still holding on to a modicum of it for safekeeping would be to hire someone for the job.

I have tried to include a modicum of explanation for each audience while avoiding over-explanation for either.

The bulk of the budget goes for personnel services, with only a modicum remaining for operating expenses and usually none for equipment or capital outlay.

But it does demand a modicum of respect for others – even those who have lost respect for themselves.

Conservatives should support replacement of handouts with a program that at least asks for some modicum of work in exchange for a government-supplied income.

She has asked for a modicum of respect and privacy for her family (read children).